980 VS 970

[Bijmij1]

Hey guys, Here in Belgium A 980 costs €650.

A 970 is €400.

 

My budget now allows me to buy a 970. But should I wait to get a 980 or isn't it worth the extra cost?

Because the 3.5GB shouldn't be a problem. should it? well. not that .5GB will make a big difference.

 

Well. I thank you for your help anyway

 

 

[ind3x]

the .5GB won't make a difference unless you go 4k, and then you should be going 980. (for gaming)

It depends on what you want. The 980 does perform better, but has a lot worse price/performance ratio than the 970.

Do you have an SSD? Otherwise i would pick the 970 and add an SSD.

[Prastupok]

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As a proud 970 owner, I can confirm that if you are in the market, that is the way to go. I almost went dual 980s, but the price wasn't justified. I bought 2 of them, and with the exception of one game, everything works flawlessly, even at 4k.

My personal benchmarks (Before I added the other 16gb of ram): http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/6243556

And no, it won't affect you, unless all you play is shadow of mordor w/ ultra textures. Be sure to follow your posts though, @Bijmij1

[Najuno]

As long as you stay in 1080p you won't have any issues. Go for the GTX970 and you won't regret it .

[GrimNeo]

Hey guys, Here in Belgium A 980 costs €650.

A 970 is €400.

 

My budget now allows me to buy a 970. But should I wait to get a 980 or isn't it worth the extra cost?

Because the 3.5GB shouldn't be a problem. should it? well. not that .5GB will make a big difference.

 

Well. I thank you for your help anyway

Go for the 970 if your at 1080p.

 

As long as you stay in 1080p you won't have any issues. Go for the GTX970 and you won't regret it .

agreed

[ShadowHunter311]

i am looking to buy this laptop, there arent many reviews out there so would this be able to run basically all games on ultra, this is going to be my first gaming computer, if you guys can find a computer around the same price with better specs that would be amazing

 

NP8278-S Notebook  $1,734 canadian

 

17.3" Full HD LED-Backlit Display with Matte Finished Surface (1920 x 1080) - Guaranteed no dead or partially-lit pixels for first 30 days of purchasing - Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M GPU with 6GB GDDR5 Video Memory - 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4710MQ Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.50GHz) - IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU - Genuine MS Windows® 8.1 64-Bit Edition - 16GB Kingston HyperX CL9 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB [+$135.00] - 128GB Micron M600 Series mSATA3 SSD - as an OS Drive (Primary Drive C) - 1TB 7200rpm SATA2 Hard Drive - 6X Blu-ray Reader/8X DVD±R/2.4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software - Killer™ Wireless-N 1202 802.11 A/B/G/N Wireless LAN + Bluetooth 4.0 Combo Module [+$20.00] - Smart Li-ION Battery Pack - Fingerprint Reader

[Skora]

Get the 970. No debate.

 

Yes the 980 is better, but not enough in my opinion to warrant the price gap it has with the 980.

[Skora]

Hey guys, Here in Belgium A 980 costs €650.

A 970 is €400.

 

My budget now allows me to buy a 970. But should I wait to get a 980 or isn't it worth the extra cost?

Because the 3.5GB shouldn't be a problem. should it? well. not that .5GB will make a big difference.

 

Well. I thank you for your help anyway

The 980 is better, but not enough in my opinion to warrant the price gap it has with the 970.

 

Both can do 4K, but you wouldn't want to game at it unless the game isn't very intensive.

 

Both are great cards, but the 970 wipes the floor clean with the 980 in terms of value, it isn't that far behind the 980 in terms of raw performance.